Re: Belkin Router issues this morning?

[Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists () gmail com>]

On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 10:18 AM, Lee Howard <Lee () asgard org> wrote:
> On 10/7/14 10:14 PM, "Christopher Morrow" <morrowc.lists () gmail com> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 8:56 PM, Larry Sheldon <larrysheldon () cox net>
> > wrote:
> > > I am having trouble understanding why a router would need a heartbeat
> > > from
> > > some foreign location.  Or even what it would do with one.
> >
> > One, not crazy, line of thinking is that: "Instead of being cryptic
> > and difficult to understand, help the customer to know that: "your dsl
> > is boarked" and that offloading that call set from the ISP for
> > something that might be simple to fix at the CPE might make the ISP
> > folk happy.
>
> That would be not-crazy if there were congruence with "DSL borked" and
> "host unreachable."

but see point 2 ... they were supposed to run a reliable always-on
service.. oh, wait ,that's what you meant :( (this plan didn't get to
step3 - profit!)

> > Of course that decision process came with the decision to run a
> > reliable and always-on service...oops.
>
> Clever!
>
>
> Lee